Reviews (page 7 of 7)
I guess the guitar parts are really good?
I found this album a bit boring, but I liked a couple of songs. 2/5 stars.
Jangly west coast pop group change into a solid country rock group. Best Tracks: You Ain't Going Nowhere; Hickory Wind; Nothing Was Delivered
eh
Meh
Sounds like stripped down country with a small infusion of Beatles. Not my favorite. Lacks many of the sonic qualities I appreciate in more contemporary country.
It is alright, I think they have better songs on better albums from what I've listened to.
Slow country music, meh, like country but wasn’t feeling this but not really the album for a 7.30am treadmill run
Not a folk/country fan
Same as 5th dimension, probably even slightly worse.
to much cristian country, nice vibe sometimes in some songs. not really my taste even tho some of the songs are very fleetwood mac alike which i like!
More like country rock... was ok but not familiar with the songs... probably because it reached only 77th on billboard charts
Ei vaan uppoa :/ liian aneemista näin tiukkaan sähinäpäivään!
En tunnustaudu olevani countryn suhteen rasisti, mutta tämä oli vähän unettavaa. Sitkeästi taistelin levyn loppuun ja siinä sivussa murskasin dataa pysyäkseni hereillä.
Country rock, not bad
Melkein teki mieli antaa kolme tähteä ihan vaan genren puolesta, mutta kuten muutkin näemmä todenneet, niin vähän laihaksi jäi anti. Väittäisin, että on paljon parempiakin genrensä edustajia olemassa, miksi tämä oli listalla?
Alkuun olin leppoisissa Fleetwood Mac -tunnelmissa, mutta aika pian loppui innostus. Vähän turhan väsähtänyttä settiä minun makuun.
Way more country than I expected, and the content was all so negative!
4
Rundes Stück Country ohne Kanten, an denen man was aufhängen könnte Runde 2.3
Man, Byrds fans in '68 were probably super pissed at this album. I appreciate the courage it probably took to switch from psychedelic rock to these well-written and played country songs (with just the barest hint of rock in it). Can't say I loved it, but thanks for doing it because I probably wouldn't have fallen in love with Whiskeytown or other bands that came after, had they not done this album.
I still don't really enjoy country, but this was better
es bastante digerible si te late el country pero ya leyendo la historia y trasfondo del disco y sus integrantes te das una idea de lo que pudo ser y no fue.
Cuando leí que este disco, de cierta forma, era parte del origen del Rock Country, puso mis expectativas muy altas, sin embargo no las cumplió. En general se me hizo bastante aburrido, con poca carga hacia el lado rock y con mucho de lo muy tradicional del country que no me gusta tanto. Además, el estilo vocal es demasiado melódico y dulce y pocas veces llega a un momento como de 'yee-haw'.
Vaikka suuri Nivala-rockin ystävä olenkin, ei tämä jostain syystä oikein lähtenyt.
As previously noted, I don't like the sounds that The Byrds make. This album was slightly better than the last one from this list, but the mostly country slant was still not one I could stomach repeatedly. 2 stars.
More Hippie Music
fuck country
Countryksi yllättävän vähän alkoi vituttamaan, mutta silti joutavaa...
This was such a departure. I get that it is considered the first country rock album but the timing of Gram Parsons in the band and the release of this album indicates that he wasn’t as much of the driver of this shift as people give him credit for. It is just a poor imitation of country for me, and barely listenable at times. And to think all of the terrible modern country comes from this explains a lot.
Um… The Byrds have 5 albums on the list. Really? Is that really necessary? Interesting, I just listened to the Flying Burrito Bros. That album has some history for me personally. This… is just another album from 68. Oh. I like alt-country. I like folk. But… this is… not good. It’s making me figure out why. It’s like smooth peanut butter. The jangling instruments, the lack of percussive interest. The treble harmonizations. It adds up to… white bread and Jiff stuck in my throat. 2… You Got a Reputation is ok, but man, I am feeling like going to 1. This album is pissing me off. How long is it? Yeah it gets a 1. The contractual disputes destroyed what might have been ok. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. Boolean: False. Don’t need 5 albums from the Byrds. They need to fly away to the past and stay there.
Unholy shit, that was rough...
Oh hell no.
I didn’t enjoy this, but struggle to put my finger on why. A lot of the time it felt too old fashioned country for me.
I was not expecting The Byrds to sound like this. It started with a Dylan song and it was all downhill from there. I sort of wish we'd got psychedelic-Byrds rather than country-Byrds. I have very little to say about this other than I did not enjoy it. 1/5
Struggled to get to the end of this one
Liker ikke sjangeren
Just lame. Love the instrumentation but subject matter is so weak
Awful, preachy, twangy, tedious complaining and praying. There is nothing here for me.
I don't know what that was?! It was either terrible country or someone trying to be country that never heard country music before.
Some of these are like oh hey I actually might like this sort of stuff. And then sometimes it is... not that. On the whole, absolutely not my jam.
Fuck the Byrds.
no tengo el alma para escuchar esto. Country rock más bien country pebble. Suena todo igual y es soporífero. solo podía ser top en los estados unidos del 68. terrible
Full Album Thoughts: Album Rating: 1.1 (C-) I still cant believe that the best parts of the album were the cut content released 30 years later. I resent having to wade through so much country dreck. I guess I like Bluegrass and Folk Songs decently enough, but I feel like I am rating them higher by sheer contrast then I otherwise objectively would. Somehow, numerically, Bruce Springsteen's album is lower than this, and this whole album is bolstered by my relief of the C side. Track Thoughts: You Ain't Goin' Nowhere C+ I dont know why I have a visceral negative reaction to the exact tone of guitar here. I should like the vocal harmonies, I should like the laid back meandering tone... but its something about the plodding bass that starts to make my eyes roll back in my head. There is something Dylan-esque to the lyrical delivery. I Am a Pilgrim B+ See now, you know what, lean into bluegrass, some folk-country... and I am all the more willing to enjoy it? Early exposure to, of all things, some fiddler's cassette when I was young, and then falling ever further down the rabbit hole due to celtic punk proclivities, along with reinforcement from the Coen Brothers preoccupation with the genre. I sleep on gospel songs but dress it up old-timey like, set out in Appalachia, and I'm actually down for it. The Christian Life F- Aaaand we're back to the whine, its a guitar that whines that drives me mad. Also wooooof the singing tone! Its the fact that every note they sing needs to be slid up or down to. I can only HOPE this is sarcastically mocking the POV character, but I am fearful it is earnest. F- You Don't Miss Your Water D- Its the dang country waltz that is doing me in. We are hitting the slide guitar again. And yet I REALLY wish the Vocal Harmony was being used for a better song because it is such a strange delivery and voicing, that like, I can see a better cover of this. And they bring in... are they actually bringing in a horn at like the 2 minute mark, or was that a strangely captured guitar tone? Eitherway, I think this has the bones of solid Midwestern Emo Shoegaze song. As is, its insufferable. You're Still on My Mind D- We keep hitting the plodding walking bass bounce and twang, but I keep being caught off guard by the eclectic vocal delivery! And then yeah we almost hit a honkytonk piano, which CAN be deftly deployed (see Jack White's solo career) to great effect. Pretty Boy Floyd B+ See now this DOES have a plodding walking bass, but its up beat, and the banjo and mandolin and fiddle drive this sombitch along something fierce. Plus a good ol outlaw folk story, lets go! My only complaint is that it is over too soon! Hickory Wind D- I wish this song stayed in South Carolina. I have a vendetta against glissando. Steel Slide Guitar is a sin in most implementations. 88 Fingers Edward can get a pass. Like I just have nothing to latch on to here. The lyrics come too few an far between, I want a sentence a bar, not a syllable or two at most. My brain cant hold that much information at once, so by the time the thought is completed I have forgotten what started it! One Hundred Years from Now D+ I am loving the vocal harmonies! The bass is doing something more than just walking back and forth! The backing guitar is doing some strange trills, and we have a piano doing something almost reminiscent of the Beatles if I squint my ears! AND THEN THE GODDAMN STEEL SLIDE GUITAR IS CHIRPING IN MY RIGHT EAR! I feel like if I muted a single track of this song, I could bring it up a whole letter grade! Its almost a rock song! Blue Canadian Rockies D You get my country's name out of your mouth. Stop warbling about my Province. (well technically Lake Louise is in Alberta, so neighbor province.) Its that goddamn hounddog wail, like a ship constantly bobbing up over the crest of a wave... I cant stand it. Life in Prison D I had high hopes before the steel guitar game in that we'd have another bluegrass banger. Lock up this whole album and throw away the key. To say one nice thing: There is a melodic interplay between the piano and the steel guitar during the solo (well, duet) portion that would be very interesting on any other instrument choice. Nothing Was Delivered F- WHERE WAS ANY OF THE ROCK that came in at like 50 seconds into this song (I guess the first half of the Chorus) on the rest of the album? And right back to country schlock. I am like, mad at being shown what could have been, at the tail end here. Do I applaud a brief moment of respite as a shining beacon to be celebrated, or chastise what has been demonstrated as technically possible yet willfully not pursuing it? You Got A Reputation A Oh fuck off the best song on the album wasn't originally on the album? This is a bonus from the re-release? I was ready to just Stop Listening at this point but like, this is legitimately excellent! (and also giving me CCR/Beatles vibes) FUCK I am going to have listen to the last two songs because what if there is gold?! Lazy Days B Fuck me and an early Beach Boys riff? Like actually upset that this is on the cutting room floor of the album. This should replace the opener about doing nothing, it covers basically the same material. (though I dont like the lyrics imagery as much here). Pretty Poly A+ And we go hard into heavier blue grass! Oh man this is like straight up my kind of folk song too! Its got that minor key drone! Again, like absolute shining bright spot of the album! Haunting yet Bright! I am so in love with this! WARGH WHY IS IT ONLY CUT MATERIAL!
Holy crap is this bad. Why did they feel the need to make a country album? Their other stuff is so good, but this is derivative, hokey, and cringey. 1.0/5.0: Embarrassing
If I was a racist who was planning to marry my sister I think I would love this
Hmm. I have zero investment in the Byrds' history prior to this album, so I'm not offended by all the country rock, just slightly wondering why. (Why this and not the Eagles?) Along trundles the album, strumming and crooning in my ears while I do some work. Oh, what's that, "Life in Prison" you say? "With trembling hands I killed my darling wife / Because I loved her more than life / My love for her will last a long, long time". All this over a jaunty, cheerful instrumentation. Narrator sounds a bit sad at the idea of not having received death penalty ie having to live with what he's done. Well fuck off Merle Haggard, Jelly Sanders, Gram Parsons, Byrds. It's Bad, 1/10.
Jesus Christ and the country...yay.
101. no
Not a fan, even after a second listen. I really didn’t connect with this music.
Horrible awful almost unlistenable for me urgghhhh!!!
Shiftless, shallow musicianship. Kudos for propping themselves up long enough to record that ruinous take of You Don't Miss Your Water. Don't cover Motown!! Jail.
Nicht meins
Music you can both watch paint dry and beat your wife to.
Sweetheart of the Rodeo is often hailed as a pioneering country-rock record, but for me it was a real tough listen. The blend of rock, pop and traditional country just doesn’t do anything for me. I found it surprisingly flat and one-dimensional, and listening to the extended version only amplified that feeling. There’s a strong late-’60s Nashville influence throughout, pedal steel, harmonies, and more than a hint of religious sentiment — but rather than sounding groundbreaking, it comes across as dated and uninspiring. I Favourite track: One Hundred Years from Now was passable and at least had a bit of energy. Least favourite tracks: Hickory Wind and The Christian Life did very little for me. In truth, I struggled to find many real highlights across the album. Album artwork: Lots going on and nothing very good.
Lifeless and uninspired music. Belongs in the trash. Next.
What the hell... The Byrds went country? No. Just no. Why?
It’s in my ears! Get it out!
That was trash
Awful in just about every way, IMO. Without quite having the chronology down, this album either sounds like the generic country I don't like or Graham Parsons invents the country I don't like on this album.
reallllllly pushing it with this one
Ooooo
Yeah, no. No thank you. I will never understand peoples strange obsession with Gram Parsons. I guess he did pave the way for the "butt rock in a 10 gallon hat" people pass off as country music today, gee thanks. I honestly wish I had never listened to this and that there was a score lower than 1 star, but here we are.
not for me
It’s a stock standard country album where they wrote none of the songs, this song imo is not revolutionary in any way, if I want to listen to a bob Dylan written song, I’ll just listen to bob dylan
Generic country. Not terrible, not great. Another one on here that is apparently influential but it's lost on me.
Sounds like a perfectly nice country album accidentally made by a band that didn’t really want to be there. Historically important, emotionally beige.
Eh, I liked some of the instrumentals but this was pretty boring for me. Was every band in the 60s/70s required by law to rip off Bob Dylan???
Saw the band and the album cover and started laughing. I even told a friend that also does this challenge that I was going to hate this in the morning. Lo and behold, I hated it. Folk/Country crap, and when I hit the song “The Christian Life”, I was like that’s enough for me.
An album of covers played in country rock style. No thanks.
Another Byrds album that bores me to death. There were two or three songs here I tolerated that had a cool mellow Americana vibe but not enough for me to tolerate a country (a genre I mostly do not really like) album from a band I already do not like. Man do I just not really like the Byrds.
Too country for me
Must've been a banger at Christ camp '68
Strange; as I claim many albums are
This one was a real struggle for me. Favourite tracks: none. Won't be revisiting. 1/5
I was not expecting the heavy Country vibe! Thanks, but No!
I specifically said I didn't want country and this is the first offering?
Got garbage
To quote themselves: "others find pleasure in things i despise..."
🐐
Look, I get it. The 60's was a fun time and rock was in kind of a weird transitional place but JFC this is... annoying as shit.
I didn’t have any expectations going into this album and yet somehow I was let down. I really liked the cover, but that’s where the positives end. The lyrics did nothing for me, the vocals were underwhelming, and worst of all I hated the instrumentals. Honestly a miserable experience from start to finish.
Ебаное кантри
Too country for me. I could also appreciate the album for the music maybe, if it wasn't for those run of the mill stupid lyrics. Not my cup of tea.
Not my style. At all. ★
Fav: One Hundred Years From Now Least Fav: Life In Prison I don’t mind The Byrds, but finding out that this was a country album ruined it for me. It sucks, it’s boring and I’m grateful it’s only sround 30 mins
Dude this list keeps surprising me with terrible music
Chato demais!
This album is like Life in Prison. If I could die, my pain might go away.
There’s nothing I enjoy about this rockabilly style, and I grow more callous to it with each album offered on the list. My apologies to the Sweetheart, your rodeo fuckin blows.
reminds me of a worse John Denver. So many waltzes. Boring. Twangy. Grating and irritating by "Blue Canadian Rockies"
I have absolutely no idea why this is in the list. The most mediocre country ever. Nothing memorable.
Really didn't like this.
More boring ass slow poke Americana. Every song sounds the same. My kingdom for something with some grit, some balls.
Hier kwam ik gewoon echt niet doorheen. Country is niet mijn ding.
I've heard some music by The Byrds before. I thought it was nice. I feel cheated.
Country music excursion for The Byrds. An excursion l won't be taking again
Made a bad day feel worse
Urgh, can't bring myself to even complete the first track
This Byrd is NOT the word.
Écoute pénible. Album beaucoup trop long (il ne fait qu’à peine plus de 30 minutes, mais quand même). Tounes pas très inspirantes. Mais, les musiciens sont bons. Chaque ostie de toune commence avec de l’ostie de slide guitar ! Pourquoi ? POURQUOI ?? Et pourquoi un virage vers le country rock ? Selon wikipédia, ils étaient plutôt dans le rock psychédélique juste avant. Juste non.
The two first songs are good. Then it's like "country described by people who hate country"
Rock/hillbilly nonsense
This is to country what fart jokes are to humour.
Big old meh.
Take care of your health and don't listen to this!
Pretty much garbage country music til the last few songs, then it kinda evens out with some less garbage but more traditional The Byrds sounding tracks. Was going to give this a 2, but the country music was so bad...
No to this style of country, plain and simple.
You get those X-Factor artists or boy band members with no real musical ability of their own, except for the fact they can sing a bit - for years they are propped up by a record label, and a team of songwriters and producers. Now, I'm not knocking that, per se. Someone gets famous, someone else gets rich, we know the score. Well, you know when that relationship eventually comes to an end, and suddenly this artist is left high and dry without any original songs being written for them any more and they have to record an album of swing or Christmas songs because it is cheap and easy... then they have to do loads of TV interviews to promote the album and LIE THROUGH THEIR TEETH pretending they "always wanted" to record an album of jazz standards etc. Embarrassing. Well, Sweetheart Of The Rodeo comes across exactly like that. EXCEPT Roger McGuinn was capable of writing songs like Eight Miles High and You Showed Me, and apparently he really DID always want to record an album of "traditional American music". Madness. While there was always a whiff of country to the Byrds sound, and while I cannot deny Clarence White's guitar playing is mesmerising on some of the live recordings from the time he became a full-time member of the band, Sweetheart Of The Rodeo represents a cliff-face drop off in creativity and quality from the amazing albums that directly preceded it. Big fan of The Byrds, but their music is not on this album.
I know the intention here was to try and make twangy honky-tonk seem hip to the 60s kids, but if I wanted to listen to The Louvin Brothers, I'd just listen to The Louvin Brothers. This all sounds pretty hokey to me, practically to the point of parody. There is, all the same, some pretty stellar musicianship here, but I definitely think these fellas ought to have stuck with the psychedelic sounds they were known for. There are a couple standout tracks for me: Hickory Wind and Lazy Day. Both feature and were written by Gram Parsons, whose compositions and delivery feel more authentic, like he wasn't "trying on" the sound. All in all, I think this release holds up to the record company tagline to promote this when it came out: "This Country's for the Byrds." Uhhhh, yup.
switched off after "The Christian life". Jesus!
Didn’t know The Byrds did country. They shouldn’t have
Thank god this wasn't the first time I heard the Byrds, otherwise I woulda thought that they sucked hard
In a nutshell: Gram Parsons hijacks The Byrds. I get why this is in the book- it's the progenitor of country rock. But it's boring. It didn't captivate me like Wilco, Willie Nelson and Dolly Parton did. Overall: 2/10
Not for me
Nope, 👎 too country and too much god
Why, why? For me, country is a genre that has no place in my musical universe and immediately disappears into a black hole (the trash can). "Sweetheart Of The Rodeo" has all the ingredients it needs: the title, the guitars, the fiddle, the banjo, and the vocals. Nothing screams country more, and I hate it.
Whey to much Jesus
Country bumpkin nonsense
I somehow thought The Byrds were a bit like... The Small Faces or something. But Jesus... Country, and somewhat Christian country at that. Absolutely not.
The Byrds. I like The Byrds. Oh dear - what the heck is this?!? No issue with the genre shift - just that it is so pedestrian and has absolutely no place on this list.
I really did not enjoy this album
Makes me want to puke into a hay bale
I just can’t.
I'm tired of this Grandpa Admittedly, I'm not a fan of American rock/Folk. Nothing stands out to me. This all just sounds like music I'd hear standing in a roller coaster line at Knotts berry farm. Listening to this made my day actively worse.
Ay caramba, da losi erneut das top Radiohead album, schriibe mis review, Schicke ab, und denn chund wider de huere lassoschwingendi, Jesus verehrendi cowboy-brunz. Macht mi hässiger je meh so Albe bide 1001 sind. Fuck that, Abbroche und d ohre eimal gründlich usgwäsche. Ein Chautabak-gfüllte speuz in Spucknapf für das zügs
I feel like a big part of the Byrds success was repackaging Dylan for people who wanted music to be more boring. Starting this album with an uninspired Dylan cover did little to allay these concerns. Now I realize their thing wasn't so much repackaging Dylan as it was watering down distinctive music until it had no edge to it at all. Astonishingly empty album, now that I'm deeper in. What if we had the softest most boring band try to half-ass country for an album?
That’s gonna be a no from me, dawg.
It sounds like a parody of country music.
Not for me at all. I don't like country even when mixed with other genres. I've softened to some types of country music, which is usually a bit more hard rock than it is country, but this particular kind of country is just a big no for me.
I didn't hate it, but I didn't like it.
I DON'T LIKE COUNTRY
Just a bunch of boring white dudes with a banjo
dnf
boring
Jeg bliver aggressive af sådan noget lort! AAAAAARRRRHHHHH!!!!!
Mine ører bløder og min mund smager lidt af opkast
Maybe it's just the particular historical moment we live in or maybe it's just a culture clash thing or maybe it's just being sick of hoary cliches, but ugh, a tired-sounding country-rock album where they sing about loving the Christian life? No thanks.
Not for me
A horrendous waste of time, can't believe it's anywhere near the top 1000 albums of all time, letalone top 10,000.
Didn't think much of this. I think I was expecting something different from the Byrds not this.
Just a bunch of boring white dudes with a banjo
I know this is a legendary group. I could not finish. From the opening twangy guitar, to the nasal off-key wannabe Dylan singing to the honkey-tonk country rock style…I just couldn’t stand it. The banjo, fiddle, mandolin (?) and piano sound good. I’d give it 1.5 if I could.
Just didn't care about this at all. The songs on here I recognised I know from covers I enjoyed a lot more.
Marked a move from their previous Psychedelic Rock albums to Country Rock, but more Country than Rock. I'm not a fan.
Nope, not a fan of cowboy country. I was anticipating a different 1960s band called the Birds
Ah, Gram Parsons, my old nemesis. He's the anti-Eno for me; everything he touches turns to dogshit.
Terrible nonsense
Do we really need this many Byrds albums? I think not. Completely epitomizes all the worst problems of this list: Too enamored with the past and with records that should have been filtered by the passage of time. There are Byrds albums whose influence can still be heard to this day, this is definitely not one of them.
No country for this old man.
This album was awful
Bruh, this definitely ain't it
Garbage. I could barely make it through three songs
Country parece-me quase sempre a música pimba portuguesa mas adaptada aos EUA. Não é tão má, mas...
Country? Christian? No thanks.
Not my kind of country music. They should have stuck with the sound of their previous albums instead.
Probably could have been a 2 but the election results made me especially intolerant of music like this today. Very boring.
That’s gonna be a no from me, dawg. 1/5
Couldn’t even make it through the whole thing, just no. Awful.
Risible stuff really, from a band who should know better. Is this what happened? The psychedelics artists of 67 suddenly grew up, got a six shooter and met up with Gram Parsons to release a load of country dirges? It's just so basic and simple, with very little of any interest of all. I never thought I'd say this about The Byrds, but I wouldn't mind a little Bob cover instead to be honest.
Holy crap. I generally like country music and this was bad
christian country gross
No thank you.
"You ain't going nowhere" sounds disturbingly country. Skip to the next - and that sounds even more country. A few more skips and I'm asking - when did The Byrds become country? Oh. It turns out with this album. Yes, this is guff. No, it isn't guff. It's actively painful. That steel guitar "bwap bwap bwooow" noise causes actual pangs of revulsion. This is a hard, hard no from me.
Saccharine and uninteresting country. Almost so much so that it sounds like a parody of country music.
I've heard other country albums, no problem. Some I have even enjoyed. But something about this one is so repulsive to me, I couldn't finish it.
What a jangly boring piece of shit. Sorry ya'll but I honestly couldn't stand this one. I tried but I couldn't grab onto anything here. Fav songs: - I guess You Ain't Goin' Nowhere?
Not my thing and I don't think that I needed to hear that before I die.
Country music. Boring and irritating at the same time. I tried but could not finish.
Nope, not a fan of the country music. I did enjoy however reading the WIkipedia article on Gram Parsons. When Keith Richards says you're being too reckless with the drugs, that's saying something. It's definitely a tragic story and I'm sad for the guy, but his friends could have done a better job with his burial wishes.
I did not enjoy the last Byrds' album, so when I figured out this one was a country album it set my expectations to the floor. Man, this album is so boring and twangy, I have no patience for country music. EVERY SONG SOUNDS THE SAME I AM GOING CRAZY! I am not looking forward to their other 3 albums on this list. (did they really need 5 spaces?!?!)
Och ne, nicht schon wieder so eine Endsechzigerjahre Countryrockfolkscheibe. Wie wärs zur Abwechslung mal mit etwas Barockmusik? Hannibal Lecter und ich empfehlen da die Goldberg Variationen von J.S. Bach. Gespielt von Glenn Gould. 1981.
I'm not flying with these Byrds.
It's The Byrds Jim, but not as we know it :-(
Yuck
I usually like The Byrds, but I didn't care for this one at all.
Read the notes on the album and sounds like a bit of a messy recording. I get it's subsequence influence, but not on my like of country.
More country. Very disappointed that The Byrds weren't even a country band really and made a decision to go in this direction. That said, this apparently did piss off ultra conservative country fans so feel a bit conflicted. By definition it seems you make only make a country album by rehashing the same half a dozen riffs and tropes so nothing here was different or interesting.
Really irritating and not what I expected based on the previous album. Doesn't really get going.
As far as country goes, it was probably more accessible than usual.... Not for me though.
wtf, never thought of the Byrds as a country artist
Let me get this straight: It’s the 60s. These guys are gonna travel to a festival show, do a lot of cocaine and heroin and hang out with a bunch of underage groupies backstage, then come out on stage to sing a song like “This Christian Life,” all about how they lost all their friends because they don’t have fun anymore, and then go right back to the drugs and groupies? And not only are all these songs total nonsense, they all sound screechy and irritating? I didn’t even like these guys when all they were known for was jangly Dylan covers, but this is really too much to be believed. It’s like some terrible marketing plan: go country, still get all the drugs and groupies, no energy needs to be spent on rocking’, and you can write even fewer songs than before! Brilliant.
The Byrds had such an awesome sound. Why’d they have to pull this shit?! Not the worst album I’ve ever heard, and I actually really enjoyed “One Hundred Years From Now,” but one star for shitting all over something that used to be amazing.
Disgusting country twang. 1.4
Don’t like them on their home turf, and I don’t like them doing this kind of thing either
The Byrds again?? I figured it couldn't get much worse but it got much worse
This record is somebody's sweetheart somewhere but it ain't here.
I could have known from the title of the album "Sweetheart Of The Rodeo" that I wouldn't be able to do anything with it. I listened to the first three tracks and switched on after a few seconds, so perhaps the Byrds have succeeded in playing country music immersively on this album. All the more reason for me not to enjoy it. You probably have to be Texan and have a lot to do with rodeo to listen to music like this. It annoys me, just like Bavarian folklore, German Schlager and German folky music. 1/5
I didn't realize the Byrds were a country band.
No thanks to country rock
Odd Christian tunes
And I thought the other one was dull, the one with Hey Mr Tambourine Man. The country thing just ain't it for me
The whole album, every single track, is a bit tame and twangy for me. Didn't find any tracks I liked. I'm afraid it has to be a 1 star
Pile of s**t, honestly
Mo
No thanks
Country Rock doing country rock things, things that I don't really like. That southern twang that sounds like yodeling that I just can't really stand, it puts me to sleep but then jerks me awake when they begin to yell (??) again. Please make it stop. Best: Pretty Boy Floyd Worst: The Christian Life Note: Spotify had an extended album version, I only listened to the original 11 tracks.
Country is gewoon kut. Sloom en jankend gezang. Enige leuke is het gitaarpingel
Awful!
Pretty boring
Country shite. Awful.
No
Oh I dislike country rock. This album was torture for me to listen to, it just sets my teeth on edge. 1/5
No, just, no. I would rather stick a fork in a light socket than listen to the again.
Painful
Não consigo ter empatia por esse ritmo musical, o que limitou o minha sensação com esse albúm.
Not for me, sounds the same.
1.5 Look, this list has done a successful job of opening my mind towards country music, but Jesus this was terrible. I don’t claim to know a ton about The Byrds, but supposedly their sound changed almost entirely with this album due to Gram Parsons’ involvement, so all I can say is F that guy for it. The story surrounding his death and cremation is awesome, but between this and that Flying Burrito Brothers album, that’s all he has going for him. The first song, You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere is decent and gave me Bob Dylan vibes despite the twang, but by the second track, I was ready for this thing to end. And as it just so happens, the opening track is, in fact, a Bob Dylan cover, so once again, F these guys for dragging Dylan’s name into this. Everything else on this album sucks and/or is incredibly boring, with The Christian Life in particular being a song that made me want to bash my head against a wall. Supposedly these guys were booed out of Nashville for being a bunch of hippies posing as country stars, and for perhaps the first time in my life, I gotta say I’m with the conservatives on this one - leave the country music to country artists. I know I’m in the minority here because this is a highly regarded album, but the closest comparison I can draw to this is when Weezer brought in Lil Wayne to help spice up Ratitude - and we all know how that ended up. If you’re a big fan of classical country music, there’s probably some enjoyment to be had in this album for you, but as someone who wouldn’t consider the genre a personal favorite of theirs, I’d much rather listen to quite literally any other country album we’ve had on this list so far. Gonna need Patron, gonna need a beat, gonna need a lot of pretty girls around me in order to forget this one. (I can’t stop, partying, partying)
I recommend this album if you have trouble sleeping. The monotonous music and singing make you fall asleep after 5 minutes.
Too much religion
Plunka plunk music. It must be ...Tuesday. I gave up after three songs. 1 star. Might have gotten more on a different day, but it was not to be.
Outdated and absolutly not my taste
FFS the 60s psychedelica seems to appear every second day. Now it’s worth, it’s gone Country
Americana. Again. Bleh. No good members left either. Bland crap.
How this album can be categorized as rock music is beyond me. This is straight up, old school, twangy as hell, whiny ass country music. It's awful. We need a zero stars.
Did not like this at all. Not much of a country fan to begin with, and neither liked the singing nor the instrumentation. Everything sounded the same.
Generic country. Not terrible, not great. Another one on here that is apparently influential but it's lost on me.
hot garbo
Now, this is some Cracker Barrel shit right here. This album was a touch more lively than Southern Baptist church music, only a touch though. 2/10
Well I’m not a country fan so my critiques don’t matter. It’s not going to get a high score. This is mostly blue grass. Slow, boring, can’t wait for this album to be over. Why does it have to be so long? 2/10
Hopefully one I day I'll find a country album that I like. Today is not that day.
boring
Ugly byrds.
They should turn turn turn back from this sound and go back to their more psych/pop stuff
No….just no. Too twangy. Terrible.
Rubbish
First 4 chords of track 1 and my instant thought was... I'm gonna hate this!! The Byrds have created loads of great music, but this country album isnt one of them, this creation is little more than dreadful. Nothing else to say except, I hate this album with a passion. I hate country music with a passion.
Was not expecting this from the Byrds. Didn't care of it at all.
could not make it more than three seconds into track 1. way too country for me.
Woof
There are so many things I'd rather be doing than listening to the Byrds' country album, including but not limited to committing arson and getting a prostate exam. Dogwater. I can't think of a more boring and vanilla band than The Byrds. They might be influential in pioneering the folk rock genre or whatever, but they're the ultimate "product of its time" band that has zero appeal to modern ears. They just didn't stick in the same way that The Beatles, The Beach Boys or even The Kinks did. Have you ever met a hardcore Byrds fan younger than 50? I don't get why these guys have 5 albums on this list - "Mr. Tambourine Man" is understandable at least, but anything else is mega overkill.
Þarna fóru Byrds-liðar 100% út í köntríið og misstu mig þar með. Ekkert spes.
This might sound mean, but there's only very few kinds of music that I like less than this. Sorry.
what the fuck happened here? when did the Byrds, the 60s beat psychedelia merchants turn in to a bunch of huyk hyuk cleetus's? its called cuntry for a reason.
SHACK is big and fairly racist. He also watches fairy racing. Hates Belgians. Eats lamb chops for breakfast.
So the Byrd's do country. Wish they hadn't.
This is not my kind of music. "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" is.... okay, and I could tolerate it playing in a bar or restaurant I'm at, but this is not what I like. I cannot tolerate any of the other songs.
Just too country for me. I wish I could get more into it. Plus I blame them for helping birth country rock which has now turned into the worst music around today.
Bible bashing country bumpkin shite. Sorry
I really can't stand this kind of music This is only the 2nd album I couldn't even listen to the end
Too country
Generic country riffs, generic country singing, generic country lyrics, generic country star rating. Avoid and stick with Turn Turn Turn.
Kinda boring. I like some music by the Byrds, but not much on this album…
Ugh, ojalá se hubieran quedado en la sicodelia.
Nyce album cover, but unfortunately, Y'm not gyvyng out stars for album covers. The fyrst song was good enough, but what followed was medyocre and contryved attempts at country musyc. How many rodeos have these cyty slyckers been to anyway? One brand new, shyny, never broken yn cowboy boot out of fyve. 👢
Notes - Country rock album by the Byrds - They decided to do a big genre shift after seeing their popularity decline - Originally they got pushback but the album has gone on to be a big part of “outlaw country” and country rock in general - A mix of covers, traditional country songs, and originals - Seen as significant for just how big of a risk it was - But to me….. hugely disappointing after how much I liked younger than yesterday - Bit of a Snooze fest Fav - Dunno the songs all sound the same to me - You aint goin nowhere - I guess Least fav - Life in prison 1/5 - OOF what a disappointment
Dit is helemaal niet wat ik me herinnerde van een album van The Byrds dat ik ooit veel draaide. Weg ermee!
Nope. Look, as someone who's vehemently against all organized religion, some of the songs here made me nauseous and angry at the dopey "aw shucks, I'm just a good ol' Christian, putting up with all these sinners" shtick. I also despise almost all country music, so, yeah, put it in the trash and set it on fire.
Second album from The Byrds in three days, but they are so wildly different from each other, it might have been centuries between those two. "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" takes turn, as you might have guessed by the title, into the uncharted territory of country music. It's also very helpful that yesterday's album was by George Jones, one of the staples in country music history. This gives me some room for comparison between those two albums. The Byrds leaned heavily into country style, leaving no room for soft, or psychedelic rock they were exemplifying before. Also, contrary to Jones music, they started playing a sort of group/band country, with plenty of instruments, with lyrics being just somewhere in the background. As a result, this album is not as good as previous one, and the change made the band 'just another one out there'.
Could have done without this one. Mediocre country.
> The Byrds' audience was used to groundbreaking experimentation from the band, but balked at the album's adoption of a genre they associated with conservative rednecks lmao just say racism. and i'm balking for the same reason five decades later > A relative failure on release lollllllllllllllllll > On March 29, 1968, King went to Memphis, Tennessee > On April 3, King addressed a rally and delivered his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" > King was fatally shot at 6:01 p.m., Thursday, April 4, 1968 > Between March 9 and March 15, 1968, the band, accompanied by several prominent session musicians, recorded multiple takes of eight songs at Columbia Records' recording studios in the Music Row area of Nashville.[11] Recording sessions for the album continued from April 4 through May 27, 1968, at Columbia Studios in Hollywood, so mlk jr is assassinated, and they decide to cosplay as sons of the confederacy? to aggressively court violent whiteness? fuck outta here ★☆☆☆☆ for this, any, and all byrd's albums
Not my sweetheart…
Absolute arse, can't tell if they're tacking the piss or not. If they are it's not funny, if they're not than this is a massive arse stain on the filthy sheet of music history.
Not a huge Byrds fan. But the Byrds doing country? Absolute seals the deal, utter shite.
No. No no no no no no no.
Can see why it would appeal to some, but for me this is a no....
When you know The Byrds psychedelic work then listening to their Christian, Country album is not a pleasure. Terrible album.
one star all the way. eehh
I actively disliked this album. Hippies pretending to be cowboys is my new least favorite genre.
Religious nonsense with bad country music
I like country music. I likes teh whole hippie rodeo vibe of the album cover. Then the lyrics... The lyrics, people... They are scary AF. Maybe it's bc english is not my main language but no thank you. 1 star for you!
country bullshit
залупа
Insufferable lyrics, boring melodies that don't change within songs, and barely change between songs. Best I can say is that it's reasonable background music, and music me and my buddies could play at open mic night Highlights: Lazy days, Pretty Poly
Far to country
not for me
Are you having a laugh?!
nah
It's too American
...
Christian country music? Yeah not for me 1/5.
Absolutely atrocious. Everything you hate about country music all wrapped into one. Will physically avoid ever having to listen to this again. Strong word coming…fucking shit.
Sorry, this was terrible. 1 star
Country
Levyn kansi oli parasta antia. Muuten ei toimi. 1.5/5
I did not like this at all. It felt contrived and rude and judgmental. I didn't mind the country/folksy music but I expected more from the Byrds
1.5 | Qué extraño que este sea el primer disco de The Byrds que toca. Siento que llevo muchas reseñitas haciéndoles referencia y resulta que cuando tocan por primera vez (porque si ESTE está, quiere decir que hay al menos 4 discos de ellos) es con un disco que, aunque críticamente aclamado, ni siquiera puedo decir que es de la banda correcta. Era la historia de The Byrds... una banda que década tras década fue cambiando de estilos y miembros, pasando por folk, psicodélico y demás, casi creando estos estilos y siendo de las cosas más influyentes en la música en general. Luego imaginemos que llega un nuevo miembro, que más que miembro parece un estafador con un plan. Este miembro que llamaremos Gram Parsons (porque así se llamaba) en realidad no quiere ser parte de la banda, en realidad el quiere tocar un estilo propio de música que le llama Cósmica Americana, le llama como quiere pero en realidad es country, es un vil músico de country. Entonces llega el líder de la banda, Roger, quien es el único miembro que prevalecerá durante todas las encarnaciones de la banda y les platica a sus compañeros que tiene la idea de hacer el siguiente disco como un homenaje-estudio de todos los estilos de música americanos, haciendo un disco que traiga blues, jazz, country, r&b, etcetera como un catalogo histórico (lo cual a su servidor le suena como un disco que sería pocamadre). Pues entonces empiezan y poco a poco, como un hongo, con alguna clase de pacto impío con una entidad ciclopea-abisal (porque no veo otra posible razón) Gram se va adueñando de todo, y va cambiando el sentido del disco y va convenciendo a todos de que maravilla es su idea y BAM! ahora están haciendo un disco de country, con básicamente el disco entero cantado por él con canciones suyas. Este no es un disco de The Byrds, es un disco de Gram Parsons con The Byrds como sus músicos. La cosa más maravillosa de todo... el disco es odiado por sus seguidores hippies de contracultura, el disco es odiado por los verdaderos fans de country porque que están haciendo estos hippies metiéndose al country... Gram Parsons de todas formas decide mandarlos a la goma y abandona la banda que acaba de dejar maltrecha (creo que su tiempo como miembro fueron 5 o 6 meses en total). Con el tiempo el disco fue mejor recibido y hoy se considera muy influyente en el rock country (de hecho creo es el primer disco catalogado como tal). Personalmente, el disco no hace nada por mí, he escuchado country que me gusta más (que de entrada es difícil que me agrade mucho el género con sus notadas excepciones) y en realidad parece que es alguien tratando de imitar lo que se supone es el country. No dudo que haya gente a quien le encante el disco, es competente, pero para mí nomás no me prende ni tantito y casi me molesta la idea de que sea un disco de The Byrds, que no le viene al caso, y mucho más me molesta la idea de pensar ese disco que pudo haber sido y se perdió en el olvido. Iba a subir mi 1.5 a la 2a estrella... pero meh... ya habrá tiempo para alabar a The Byrds.
Not really a fan...
Did not like the Religious touches
2/10
Christian country music. No thank you.